Intermediate Care

Here you will find all of our Intermediate Care reports.

The Case for Change for Integrated Care for Barking and Dagenham,

Havering and Redbridge (BHR) (August 2012) identified that too many people are being admitted to hospital for entirely preventable causes. This has resulted in an over reliance on institutional (bed based) services as the default option rather than considering individual needs, choice and ability to return home.

The Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Trust (BHRUT) has more rehabilitation/reablement beds than other similar parts of the country, high occupancy and long lengths of stay. This is related to poor procedures and an inability to move service users in and out of these facilities in an appropriate and timely manner.

Healthwatch Redbridge was commissioned by Redbridge Clinical Commissioning Group (RCCG) to facilitate a workshop whereby people would be given the opportunity to find out more about the services (the Community Treatment Team (CTT) and Intensive Rehabilitation Service (IRS) and discuss any concerns they may have.

We were then commissioned by the Redbridge CCG to carry out visits to the Intermediate wards, first at Heron Wood and Gallion Wards in Wanstead and now at the Japonica, Jasmine and Foxglove Wards at King George Hospital.

Intermediate Care Visit- May 2017

This report provides an update based on our original review and follows on from the previous recommendations shown in reports provided to Redbridge Health Scrutiny Committee on 21 November 2016 and 20 March 2017 . Feedback for both CTT and IRS services was very positive, with all service users saying they would use the service again if needed in the future; we therefore decided a further review was not required.

Following the previous reviews of Foxglove and Japonica wards in KGH, a number of recommendations were provided by HWR to NELFT to improve the service.

Our HWR Board also agreed that this visit would be carried out unannounced using our Enter & View powers to find out if any of the recommendations have been followed and if any new areas need to be considered.

Intermediate Care in Redbridge: A review of patient experience of home and hospital care for people needing short term rehabilitation support

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Care Closer to Home- Integrated Care in Redbridge- October 2014

A consultation was held at Wanstead Library on the 13th of October 2014 to discuss these proposed changes. Everyone was invited to this consultation, including patients, carers, councillors and general members of the public. You can read more about the consultation by downloading the report below.